Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting toward midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The picture?  I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage.  That's rendered complex by the Martinist tradition that one does not name one's initiator, so we'll have to go back through less evasive routes. Last week's honoree, René Chambellant, became head of the Eglise Gnostique Universelle on the death of his teacher and consecrator, Constant Chevillon, whom I'm honoring this week. Martinist, Rosicrucian, Freemason, and Gnostic bishop, Chevillon was born in 1880, showed remarkable intellectual gifts in youth, but went to work in the banking industry while devoting his free time to occult and spiritual pursuits. He wrote seven books and many essays about Gnostic theology and practice, and his integrity and spiritual qualities won the respect not only of his fellow Gnostics but of Catholics and nonreligious people. In 1944, he and other leading citizens of Lyon were taken hostage by the Nazis in revenge for activities of the Resistance, and shot to death. He is considered a saint and martyr by most modern Gnostic churches; the day of his martyrdom, March 22, is his feast day.

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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

Bornless ritual

[(Anonymous)]

Hey jmg

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion on the bornless ritual, and so I wanted to ask if this ritual is compatible with G.D. Work, and if it is something that should be occasionally used by G.D. Students with more than a year of experience?

Re: Bornless ritual

[ecosophia]

The reason you've heard of the Bornless One ritual is that the Golden Dawn picked it up, blew the dust off it, and put it to work. (That's where Crowley got it.) Do you have a copy of Regardie's Big Gray Doorstop book? You'll find a full-on GD version on pp. 561-566.

If you've only had a little over a year of experience, though, you may not be up to it yet. You'll need to be comfortable with the whole range of pentagram rituals, taking on godforms, the vibratory formula of the Middle Pillar, and the solitary opening and closing rituals. If you're not that far along, my suggestion is to get a copy of Regardie's book Ceremonial Magic and work with the Watchtower ritual for a year or so, starting with the basic form and working up to the complete form; when you can do that from memory, with good results, you can go onto the Bornless One ritual and get solid results with it.